VI-mode visual mode prompt

[phortonssf]

In vi mode, is there a way to set the prompt for VISUAL mode like there is for CMD and INSERT modes?
Or I'm I stuck with visual mode always looking like CMD mode? Ty

[edouard-lopez]

We do not support this at the moment. You can fall back to Fish native mechanism by disabling pure vimode prompt:

set --universal pure_reverse_prompt_symbol_in_vimode false

Better Support?

If you would like to propose an MR, we could work toward adding support. I recommend you have a look at the following links.

Note: I'm not actively using vi mode as I'm using Fish with Tmux and copy/paste don't work as I expected (probably some overlapping binding issue).

Fish

I'm not really fan of Fish fish_default_mode_prompt prompt prefix.

Pure's code

• conf.d/pure.fish: see our default settings
• functions/_pure_prompt_vimode.fish: use Fish vi prompt when $pure_reverse_prompt_symbol_in_vimode is set to false otherwise disable it and use internal mechanism
• functions/_pure_get_prompt_symbol.fish: use $pure_symbol_reverse_prompt for VI insert and replace mode (that where you want to contribute more complex rule).
• check the tests/ directory for the corresponding tests

Inspiranion on Zsh implementation

[ Help needed ]/Feature request: add more vim mode indicators #552

[edouard-lopez]

Without PR on this, I'm going to close this in the coming fortnight.

Feel free to reopen if you want to work on it